he is sick of the media attention and insists the lake and the fishermen are completely safe, as long as they follow the unwritten rules. this is not a jet ski lake. there s never a jet ski seen here. they come they show up on jet keys that they don t see, and then they try to approach them and stop them because it s a war over there. two cartels fighting each other for control. and they don t stop. they take off running. collett agreed to take us into old guerrero, eight miles into mexico, into what he describes as a drug war, to show us just how safe it really was. but before he even passed the channel marker dividing the u.s. and mexican border, speedy made us promise not to raise our camera, not to raise any suspicion, and told us there s no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path.
i remember when i first started as a deputy sheriff back in the 1970s where this lake was used for drug trafficking, human trafficking. it s been used like that forever. and lately, even before the hartleys trip to falcon lake, gonzalez says a new threat has emerged. pirates. totally inaccurate. you know, the definition for piracy is a lot different than what i know it to be. had one robbery on the lake totally. robert speedy collett, who owns a fishing lodge here, admits he s been stopped by drug cartel members but also bristles at news reports of piracy and danger. these reports decimated his business on the lake which he insists is safe, as long as you know the rules. it happened to me. i didn t run. they boarded. they found out i wasn t a threat, and i was released. never robbed. never took a penny from me. they did not my wallet was in my glove box.